I have a problem with iMovie where it terminated unexpectedly. On trying to reopen my iMovie project, it gave me the error message “Unable to read iMovie project file”, or something like that. The project file still exists and is about 44kb big. It must have been corrupted in some way. So I lost my whole day’s work because I couldnt open this file through iMovie. So I thought a work around would be to create another dummy imove project, go into the “corrupted” iMovie project file (using TextEditor) and copy all the data, and then open the dummy iMovie project file and paste all the data into it. Save the file and then copy that file over the top of the corrupted file. That way, I would have an exact replica of the iMovie project file that was corrupted, except it would be a fresh, non-corrupted version. Anway, this did not work because when I tried to save the dummy iMovie project file, it did not save it as a “iMove project file” with whatever appropriate extension that is required. Text Editor saved it as a text file with TXT extension. Even when I changed the preferences in TextEditor to NOT use an extension, so the file is saved without an extension, it is still not recognised by iMovie as being a “iMovie Project File”. You mentioned in your response to the AudioMute bug above that you somehow edited the iMove project file to make the value AudioTrackMute: 0 0 0. When you saved this file, how did you save it so it was still recognised as an iMovie project file? What is BBedit? Is that similar to TextEditor?

Any help greatly appreceiated

Kind regards

Raffi